Matthieu Moy wrote: > That's another good thing with XDG (~/.config Vs ~/.cache/ for example), > but I don't think Git would have anything user-wide that would not be > configuration. Of course, but your home directory that you read with "ls -A" does. Putting configuration in ~/.config makes it easier to find amid all that noise. That said, as Junio wrote before[1]: > It is not _too_ bad to treat ~/.gitconfig specially and support reading > from ~/.$SOMEGITTTYNAME/{excludes,attributes} files. That's what vim does --- its main configuration file is ~/.vimrc, and there are also some supporting files in ~/.config/vim/. Wouldn't that be a good place to start? Jonathan [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/133343/focus=135921 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html